Need advice on a ninja / sorcerer build.

[Ben Linus]

Hi!

We have a party in pathfinder consisting of a human fighter, elven ranger, human bard(the player rarely manages to come) and a gnome druid. I played a human monk but I kinda got bored with it because in the social situations he is not very useful and in combat the fighter and the ranger always outshines him.

What we do not have is rouge and arcane caster so I thought I make a character that is both.

Since we are at LVL 12 my first choice was a ninja4/sorcerer5/arcane trickster3. The concept looks good on paper but I am not sure wether it is good in the actual game. Any experience playing it?

My other choice is similar in the base classes but instead of taking the arcane trickster I thought about getting the magical knack trait and the street mage feat and go with ninja7/sorcerer5. This way I would be more a ninja who is a pretty good caster thanks to the trait and feat. Any experience with the street mage feat and wheter it is a worthy feat to get?

The concept is to use the vanishing trick of the ninja and operate with ranged touch spells+sneak attacks, I do not really want to get in melee combat if possible.

Anyway help would be appreciated.

[qutoes]

Ben Linus wrote:

Hi!

We have a party in pathfinder consisting of a human fighter, elven ranger, human bard(the player rarely manages to come) and a gnome druid. I played a human monk but I kinda got bored with it because in the social situations he is not very useful and in combat the fighter and the ranger always outshines him.

What we do not have is rouge and arcane caster so I thought I make a character that is both.

Since we are at LVL 12 my first choice was a ninja4/sorcerer5/arcane trickster3. The concept looks good on paper but I am not sure wether it is good in the actual game. Any experience playing it?

My other choice is similar in the base classes but instead of taking the arcane trickster I thought about getting the magical knack trait and the street mage feat and go with ninja7/sorcerer5. This way I would be more a ninja who is a pretty good caster thanks to the trait and feat. Any experience with the street mage feat and wheter it is a worthy feat to get?

The concept is to use the vanishing trick of the ninja and operate with ranged touch spells+sneak attacks, I do not really want to get in melee combat if possible.

Anyway help would be appreciated.

If you get to build a high level ninja it would a crime not go to 10 th level for Invisible Blade .

[ossian666]

Arcane Tricksters ALWAYS look good on paper, but are very difficult to make combat effective. There are LOTS of threads on how to build this in an optimal way. I'd do a quick search and see what you can find because I know there are lots of good ideas out there...just none that I myself would have knowledge of.

[Ben Linus]

Thanks! I'm going with the ninja4/sorcerer5/AT3 bulid after all. Any suggestions of the bloodline? Which do you think is the best for this kind of build?

[ossian666]

Thats kind of up to what you want your build to do. I assume you will be focusing largely on Illusions, not damage spells?

[Ben Linus]

No! I'll be using the vanishing ninja trick to get sneak attacks with rays.

[ossian666]

Hmm then I got nothing really...I guess go Djinni bloodline so you get Invis for free at 5th and the ray?

I'd go more Trickster than damage IMO and take Rakshasa or Oni bloodlines if it were me.

[Ben Linus]

Rakshasa is really nice!

[hgsolo]

Ben, check out the Guide to the Class Guides. There are two guides for optimizing the arcane trickster. I am currently playing a fetchling ninja/sorcerer in an online campaign and I went for the arcane bloodline with a bonded object. Problem with most bloodlines is you aren't getting the full benefit because you are multiclassing, but the bonded object remains useful throughout.

[ossian666]

True dat. Really depends on how you build out the character and your focus.

[Ben Linus]

hgsolo wrote:

Ben, check out the Guide to the Class Guides. There are two guides for optimizing the arcane trickster. I am currently playing a fetchling ninja/sorcerer in an online campaign and I went for the arcane bloodline with a bonded object. Problem with most bloodlines is you aren't getting the full benefit because you are multiclassing, but the bonded object remains useful throughout.

So you did not take the AT way? What is your effective character level and what is your ninja/sorcerer level?

[hgsolo]

Oh, he is ninja 3/sorcerer 2 at the moment. I need two more levels of sorcerer before I can get into AT, but I intend to do so.